All posts by Jon C. Scheide
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Best of a Backlot: A Veteran AD Tests Top Tech From Cine Gear Expo 2018 So You Don’t Have To
With its aisles upon aisles of eye candy for the big kids into cameras, grips and lighting. Cine Gear Expo has become... -
Go Ahead, Make Your Day: An Assistant Director’s Guide to Running a Set
The late Sam Fuller, a veteran of moviemaking and of World War II, once said, “Film is like a battleground.” He was... -
What’s In An Eighth? An Assistant Director Explains How to Break a Screenplay Page and Plan Shots
Math is generally reliable, but in the world of moviemaking, not so much. “Five takes” usually means 15 to 20. A DP’s...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Sydney on the Map: To Land Breakout Roles, Sydney Sweeney Draws Her Own Maps of the Characters She Inhabits
A reverent initiate of a patriarchal regime; a disturbed young psychiatric hospital ward; a sexually questioning teen with a flair for the dramatic; a mysterious denizen...Inside the Issue: Directing
Think Like A Photographer: Generation Wealth’s Lauren Greenfield Shares How Still Techniques Make Better Movies
The biggest change I experienced when I went from making pictures to making films was the sense of an arc—of creating a story over time, and...Inside the Issue: How To
How They Did It: Casting Unknowns Was Key to Finding the Laughs and Lived-In Feel of Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade
Before I directed my first film, Eighth Grade, I had heard that 90 percent of directing is casting. I’m sure there are other directors who weigh...1